12 
MAY 1764. 
This Evening lay at Gowgatty, having this day proceeded only io miles. Here 
are 19 large Salt Boats 1 sunk in y e middle of the River. Some rain this Night. 
The 16th. a fair Morning, the Afternoon & Evening wet & squally. This 
Morning we had much trouble in passing the Buxeypour Shoals on which there is 
now only i\ Cubit water, so that the River here must be quite dry in y e dry Season, 
as we are informed that it has rose just ij Cubit since y e Rains began. 
7 At noon passed Vheckery-Gunge,' 2, 3 where there are 9 or 10 Salt Boats sunk, 
& at Night put ashoar at Jagipour, having gone only 10 miles this Day. The River 
here is 4 Cubits deep. Much Rain this Night. 
The 17th. fair Weather. This Day proceeded 11^ miles, but the River is so 
crooked, that we have gone only 6 011 a strait line. The Country here is open, & 
extremely pleasant. This Night lay at a small Nullah near Sasteeapour. A fine 
Night. 
The 18th. mostly fine Weather, the wind from y e South. In the Morning sent 
my Sircar " overland to Jelenghee Village in order to procure necessaries &c. against 
my arrival. This Day proceeded only 11 miles, as the River here runs very rapid, 
altlio’ it is broader & deeper than before. Lay near Doolampour, about 6 miles 
below Jelenghee, this Night. Fair Weather. 
The 19th. fair Weather all day, the Wind in fresh Breezes from the Southward. 
About 3 miles below the head of the Jelenghee we found the Water so shallow that 
the Budgarow was scarce waterborne for a quarter of a mile. 
We came into the great Ganges before noon, & arrived at Jelenghee 4 at one 
in y e Afternoon. 
8 Before I left Calcutta the Governor informed me that a convenient Budga- 
row, together with as many Willocks as I should want, would be in waiting for me 
at Jelenghee; as the Budgarow I came up in, was the smallest that could be pro- 
cured at Calcutta, in order that I might use all possible Expedition in proceeding up 
y e Jelenghee at a season when y e River was very low ; but on my arrival at Jelenghee 
I found neither Budgarow nor Willocks. The People there indeed informed me that 
Capt. Widderborne (who lately went to Camp with the Voluntiers) 5 6 had pressed 
1 Conveying salt from the sea-board to Patna and other towns on the Ganges, see pp. 18, 19. 
2 Bickarygnnge in Rennell’s Atlas. 
3 Sircar — applied in Bengal to a domestic servant who keeps accounts of household expenditure, and makes 
miscellaneous purchases for the family. (Hobson Jobson, p. 841.) 
i Jalangi : the village is not now on the main stream of the Ganges, but is separated from it by a large island. 
6 Capt. Wedderburn is mentioned in a letter from Dr. Fullartou, the sole survivor of the Patna massacre of 6th 
October, 1763, to the Board. He says : “ The 25th after giving money to a jematdar that had the guard to the west- 
ward of the Dutch Factory, by the riverside, I set out in a small pulwar, and got safe to the boats, under command of 
Capt. Wedderburn, that were lying opposite to the city, on the other side of the river, and at 11 o’clock that night 
arrived at the Army, under the command of Major Adams, lying at Jonsy ’ ( Vansittart’s Narrative, Vol. iii, p. 378 ; 
Diaries of three Surgeons of Patna, 1763, Calcutta Hist. Soc., 1909, p. 70). Several references to him are to be found 
in the accounts of the loss of Calcutta in 1756 published in Wilson’s Old Fort William (Vol. ii, pp. 5 7 > 62 , 81, 88, 
143). The Volunteers consisted of the body of men raised from among the Company's writers who were thrown 
out of employment by the events of 1756 in Calcutta (Ibid,., p. 80). They are mentioned by Orme as having embodied 
themselves at Fulta, to the number of 70, on the arrival of Admiral Watson’s squadron for the recapture of the city 
(History, Vol. ii, p. 121), and one of them, a Mr. John Johnstone, is recorded by the same historian as having 
managed a field-piece ” at the battle of Plassey, and having checked by its fire the advance of Mir Jafir’s troops 
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